Share the Stories: Cheryl's Author Visits, Presentations, Appearances, and Workshops

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As a workshop facilitator and speaker Cheryl Willis Hudson shares her experiences about creating books for children, family literacy and multicultural diversity and her expertise in developing curricula of inclusion with schools, educational institutions and other organizations around the country. She loves interacting with children and parents during school and library visits. If you'd like for her to visit your school or organization contact her at the address below.

Share the Stories
Cheryl is available for individual presentations and joint presentations with husband Wade Hudson, president and CEO of Just Us Books, who is also an accomplished author and publishing consultant. Cheryl and Wade especially enjoy interacting with students at school author visits.

Some presentations include:
  • How and Why We Need to Share Multicultural Stories
  • The Nuts and Bolts of Building a Publishing Company
  • How to Publish Your Own Children's Book
  • From "Doodler" to Editorial Director: How I Became a Children's Book Creator

A typical classroom visit with Cheryl (45 minutes) includes:
  • Cheryl's short personal introduction to students noting her childhood experiences growing up in Virginia, and an explanation of how she became an author and publisher of children's books.
  • A Read Aloud from two of Cheryl's books (Bright Eyes Brown Skin and one other title, perhaps My Friend Maya Loves to Dance or Clothes I Love to Wear.) Children are engaged in call and response  participation for Bright Eyes, Brown Skin and also in getting children to remember and recite familiar nursery rhymes with alternative endings for Many Colors of Mother Goose. Read Aloud choices are age and grade appropriate.
  • A Powerpoint presentation with music is provided for children to participate in role-playing for My Friend Maya Loves to Dance. Cheryl brings simple props for this activity as a means of engaging children in listening to different types of music and expressing different types of dance.
  • Students are shown how to make their own 8 page mini-book (complete with cover, copyright information, text and illustration) from one sheet of paper provided as a template designed by Cheryl for this purpose.
  •  By the end of the session, students have a means of "sharing their own story" and are invited to share in a Q & A session with the author.
  • Cheryl provides handouts for the teacher and bookmarks for the children and an opportunity to have books personally autographed.

Workshops and presentations may be tailored to meet specific needs and interests or age groups of the audience.

A video of "Trends and Issues in Contemporary Multicultural Children's and YA Literature"  featuring Cheryl Willis Hudson and other advisory board members of the Langston Hughes Library at the Children's Defense Fund (Alex Haley Farm) can be viewed via University of Tennesee's School of Library and Information Sciences. Cheryl Willis Hudson is a library board advisor. Contact the library for an updated link to the new url.

To request an author visit or presentation by Cheryl Willis Hudson contact SPEAKLOUDLY 
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Cheryl has been featured at:
• American Booksellers Association Convention
• American Library Association
• Banneker-Douglass Foundation Black Writer's Conference
• Charlemae Rollins African American Children's Literature Colloquium
• International Reading Association
• Library of Congress, Daniel A. P. Murray Association
• Madison, WI School District, Bridgeport, CT Schools, New Orleans MLK Charter School
• Smithsonian Institution Resident Association Program
• Harlem Book Fair, CNN BookSpan2 TV
  • SCBWI Spring Mingle Conference, Atlanta, GA
  • Kweli Children's Writer's Conference, NYC
  • Annual National Black Writer's Conference, Medgar Evers University, NYC
  • Bank Street College of Education BOOKFEST 2016—Diversity Book Discussion Group Facilitator
  • Gaithersburg Children's Book Fair, Gaithersburg, MD
  • Reginald Lewis African American History Museum
  • Easton PA BookFest
  • ​Pen America World Voices Literature Festival

    Would you like Cheryl Willis Hudson to make a presentation at your school? Please use this form to tell us when, where and the subject of your program. Most programs and events should be planned and booked at least 2-3 months in advance. Cheryl would love to hear from you.